For the Design Build of TBM Tunnels for the Tel-Aviv Metropolis RED and GREEN LINES (the
"Tender")
1.
NTA Metropolitan Mass Transit System Ltd ("NTA") is an Israeli government owned company in charge of the design and construction of the mass transit system in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area.
2.
The Red Line is the first Light Rail Transit line of the Tel Aviv metropolitan area mass transit system to be implemented ("Red Line").
3.
The Green Line is the second Light Rail Transit line of the Tel Aviv metropolitan area mass transit system to be implemented ("Green Line").
4.
The Red
Line:
4.1
The overall length
of the Red Line is approximately 23
kilometers.
4.2
The central section
of the alignment will be
underground, and shall be comprised
of cut and cover sections, shield
TBM bored tunnels and NATM tunnels.
4.3
The shield TBM
bored tunnels are approximately 8
kilometers long consisting of twin
bored single track tunnels with
cross passages (total of
approximately 16 Km).
5.
The Green Line:
5.1
The overall length of the Green
Line is approximately 35 kilometers.
5.2
The central section of the
alignment will be underground, and
shall be comprised of cut and cover
sections, shield TBM bored tunnels
and NATM tunnels.
5.3
The shield TBM bored tunnels are
approximately 3 kilometers long,
consisting of twin bored single
track tunnels with cross passages
(total of approximately 6 Km).
6.
NTA wishes to retain tunneling
contractor(s) to provide design-build
services for the shield TBM bored tunnels
for both the Red Line and the Green Line,
including the mining of cross passages and
certain post TBM works as will be further
described in the Tender documents.
7.
At this first Pre-qualification stage of
the Tender ("PQ") NTA will review bidders'
qualification with the threshold
requirements detailed in the Tender
documents, including without limitation,
certain tunneling experience requirements,
certain design experience requirements and
certain financial requirements.
8.
Only qualified bidders shall continue to
the second Tender stage and will be entitled
to submit the quality and price offers.
9.
The Tender documents, including without
limitation, all prerequisites for
participation in the Tender, may be produced
by downloading them, as of January 16th,
2012, from NTA's website at:
http://www.nta.co.il/site/en/neta.asp?pi=464
or from the following file server:
http://ftp.nta.co.il (login: 1, password:
123456).
10.
A mandatory bidders' conference shall be convened by NTA on February 22nd, 2012, 09:00 Israel standard time, at a location in Israel to be determined by NTA. For the avoidance of doubt, a proposal submitted by any bidder which did not participate in the bidders' conference as abovementioned, shall be disqualified.
Bidders are required to notify NTA 10 days prior to the aforementioned date of bidder's conference of their participation, and detail the number of participants on their behalf. Such notice shall be sent by email to the address detailed below.
11.
All questions regarding this Tender may
be addressed to the Tender's email address
at:
.
12.
The PQ proposals shall be submitted to
NTA and will be deposited into NTA's Tender
box, at 53 Yigal Alon Street, 5th floor, Tel
Aviv, no later than March 27th, 2012 at
14:00 Israel standard time. Bidders shall
receive written confirmation of their
submission.
13.
It is hereby clarified that if a
contradiction is discovered between this
advertisement and the Tender documents, the
content of the Tender documents shall
prevail over the content of this
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